Day 771: The Chair, Part 27 – The Stroller, Part 2

When Grayson was born Serena and I really wanted to get one of those infant travel systems… and for those fellow parents out there, you know what I’m talking about.  


A travel system normally comes with an infant car seat that straps into some very elaborate stroller you can use until your kid gets his driver’s license.  


These systems are very cool, very expensive… and as we later found out… very impractical.  I am almost embarrassed that we registered for it… and I’m equally embarrassed that my father-in-law actually bought it for us… since we barely used it. 


Instead, we stumbled onto the most amazing product.  An infant car seat stroller/cart frame thingy.  


Kind of like this:http://www.amazon.com/Graco-SnugRider-Infant-Stroller-Frame/dp/B0007KMUH4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=baby-products&qid=1274365403&sr=8-1


Originally, we bought this for my mom.  When Serena went back to work part-time, my mom was watching Grayson once a week and she was having trouble carrying him around in his car seat.  As a solution, Serena found the car seat stroller frame and we bought one for my mom.  It worked perfectly for her.  It was light weight, easy to move in and out of the trunk of her car, and most importantly, it was great for moving a sleeping Grayson around without taking him out of his seat.  


This product worked so great in fact that we started making my mom give it back whenever we picked-up Grayson after work.  So, fast forward four-years.  Gilliam is on his way… and where is all of our baby stuff?  In our permanent storage container in Hagerstown of course.  Duh!  


Now we already have three strollers… two are for older kids like Grayson… and the third is this really great two seat stroller our neighbors lent us, however, none were very practical for our time in London or getting through airports quickly and easily.  Which is KEY!


So… of course… we start looking for an infant car seat stroller frame thingies again.  And, the first one we found was in London.  But it is CRAZY expensive.  So, we looked into having one shipped from the States via our department personal mail service.  Well… there was an issue.  All incoming packages must not exceed a certain weight and size.  And according to Amazon, the weight was well within our limit… but the box exceeded our dimensions allowance… so we started scrambling for options.  


And our best option was none other than Costello… he was a week away from coming to visit and more than willing to lean a hand… as always.